Clutch: Whatever Happened to the Band Behind 'A Shogun Named Marcus?'

Clutch: Whatever happened to the band behind a Shogun Named Marcus?

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Clutch has weathered a long career that’s spanned three decades, dealt with big and small labels & they’ve also survived a huge shift in the music industry in the 2000’s and 2010’s. Their fans known as Gearheads have learned that Clutch’s sound continually evolves & today, let’s talk about the history of the band.

For many people, Clutch first became popular in the early 90’s with their first full length record Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes and Undeniable Truths which produced the single A Shogun Named Marcus. The band’s origins dated back to around 1988-1989 when Clutch would be formed by four friends who attended Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Maryland including vocalist Neil Fallon, guitarist Tim Sult, bassist Dan Maines and drummer Jean-Paul Gaster. One story I read claimed that the band didn’t form until after high school at least according to guitarist Tim Sult. -

When band originally formed and they called themselves Moral Minority. Before moving onto the name Glut Trip.The band would try out a few singers in their early days before Fallon fronted the band. By the summer of 1991 they officially changed their name to clutch telling people it stood for City/State Liberation Union To Cleanse Humanity.

Due to the proximity of Washington DC, the band would be influenced by groups including Fugazi and Minor Threat. And the band’s early sound was more representative of hardcore punk. Frontman Neil fallon would tell Louder Sound
“I can’t count how many times I would see Fugazi roll up to a place that wasn’t suited to a rock show and play under fluorescent lights,” “No light show, no t-shirts for sale, they just burned down the house. That bare-bones ethic affected us deeply" he would say.

Fallon would tell psyhology today how punk influenced him early on revealing “I got into singing just because it was something cool to do in high school … . I hung out with people that were into music that were on the margins, kind of in the periphery of acceptable music,” “There was a time where punk rock, hard core and heavy metal were shunned, whereas now it has become much more acceptable. It seemed that much more of a threat involved. And I think that what attracted me was the taboo of it" he would say.

While politics would play a heavy part in the band’s who originated from D.C. it never really found it’ way into Clutch’s music.

It wasn’t just bands like minor threat and fugazi who influenced band’s music as the go-go scene was as equally influential. Go go music would incorporate elements of funk along with hip hop, the blues as well as R&B and included audience participation.
Clutch would soon become well known for their visual lyrics written by frontman Neil Fallon & he would tell psychology today I’ve always been attracted to the idea of a tall tale, where you take a truth, and you exaggerate it. But any story, like if you take myth for example, it may be filled with exaggeration and half-truths. But ultimately, it’s to arrive at or depict a universal truth.”
The band would release their first EP, Pitchfork, in October of 1991. Following the release of their first EP the band would attend a corrosion of conformity concert where they gave out their EP which eventually found it’s way into the hands of a kid named James Graw. Graw for his part ran a fanzine in Kansas and It turned out earache records advertised in that magazine and they soon signed Clutch.

. The following year they would release their first major commercial EP 1992’s Passive Restraints. And labels at the time were signing punk-metal bands like Helmet, a band that Clutch bore some resemblance to. The group’s second EP would get them noticed by major labels and they would soon sign with Atlantic subsidiary EastWest.

In 1993 Clutch would release Transnational Speedway League introducing the band to a larger audience with the track "A Shogun Named Marcus"" Clutch would soon establish themselves as one of the best groove bands out there. They also soon started to get labeled as stoner rock alongside band

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